Be it..

 

I believe that some people are a cancer. Or a virus. When learning computers, at the onset of civilization, our lecturer defined a virus as 'a malicious program that comes as an attractive message with the intend of causing harm to your computer' and I believe that such are these people.  They come into your life and it is cozy at first but with time it gets toxic and you cannot disentangle yourself from this intricate web which eventually ends up taking you down the rabbit’s hole with them.

They are broken and wear it with so much pride you’d actually think it’s healthy. They are warm, accommodating and very understanding. They have been to hell and back and can therefore show empathy. But don't let this fool you into thinking they are good, they just understand. Understanding and being good are two very different things that we never seem to be ware of.

To an extend, I tend to understand why old testament people kept the lepers out of their cities. This may have sounded insensitive, barbaric and outright inhuman but in hindsight, these people had a condition that was highly contagious and untreatable such that loving them, alone, was not enough. The healthy people had to love themselves more otherwise everyone would contract it. I believe that as much as we’d really love to help broken people, it is prudent to just let them stay a safe distance away, like the lepers. And if Jesus, peradventure, happens to pass that way and heals them, then we’ll be more than happy to receive them back.

I have seen many men and women with good hearts. People who would want to hug wolves instead of running away from them. It is an admirable trait, I admit, but you are not Jesus. Don't go around trying to heal people. All you will have in the end are two broken people because hurt people, hurt people.

How do we escape all this? Selfishness. Being selfish saved millions from the corona virus and in this scenario, it will save you from many unthinkable traumas. So be it, choose you!